Charles Russell TRAIN

(1817-1885)

TRAIN, Charles Russell, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Framingham, Mass.,
October 18, 1817; attended the common schools, Framingham Academy,
and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1837;
studied law at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Framingham, Mass., in 1841; member of the
State house of representatives in 1847 and 1848; district attorney
1848-1854; declined the appointment of Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1852; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1853; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1856 and 1864; member of the
Governor’s council in 1857 and 1858; elected as Republican to
the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March
3, 1863); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1862; one of the managers appointed by the
House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment
proceedings against West H. Humphreys, United States judge for the
several districts of Tennessee; during the Civil War served in the
Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General McClellan; moved
to Boston, Mass.; again served in the State house of
representatives 1868-1871; attorney general of Massachusetts
1871-1878; resumed the practice of law; died while on a visit in
Conway, Carroll County, N.H., July 28, 1885; interment in Edgell
Grove Cemetery, Framingham, Mass.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present